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| | Title: | How to check for Colon Cancer? | | Article: | Colon means large bowel in Greek. The Colon Cancer is one of the most common types of cancers in western world. It is the second in USA. If you catch colon cancer early enough , it could be curable.
Hence doctors want to catch the tumor before it goes beyond the walls and before it spreads all over the body. The tumor tends to bleed. Relatively rare you can see frank blood in your feces when you go in a bathroom.
However if the bleeding is small, you may catch it by using special card for invisible blood. This is named Fecal Occult Blood Test. other name is a Guaiac Card.
Not always blood in your stool means cancer. There are much more conditions that might bleed. Hemorrhoids, for example, anal fissure and so on.
Doctors recommend to undergo colon cancer screening for everybody 50 years or older.
Screening for colon cancer besides Fecal Occult blood test include Colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy and barium enema. Colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy are the procedures where doctors look inside of your guts with flexible fiberoptic tubes. Barium enema is procedure where roentgenologist checks the picture of special contrast stuff distribution in the guts using x-ray technology.
To prepare for procedures you will need to have your guts cleaned before procedure. The cleansing happens after using special laxatives and clear liquids. You should do it thoroughly according to protocols. It is not uncommon that a doctor cancel the procedure because your guts where not clean enough to look through.
| | Author: | Aleksandr Kavokin, MD, PhD | | System: | Colon | | Subject: | Cancer | | Abstract: | Doctors recommend to undergo colon cancer screening for everybody 50 years or older. | | Website: | www.kavokin.com | | Time: | 10:59 | | Reference: | www.rdoctor.com | | Reference 2: | |
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